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What Is Creative? - Part 12

There are at least five primary characteristics common to highly creative people: problem sensitivity; idea fluency; origi­nality; flexibility; and drive. There are a few other secondary characteristics which, though they may be subdivisions of the first four, are in other ways unique to the point of meriting special mention: redefinition skill; abstracting ability; synthesiz­ing ability; and organizational ability.

Before going into these characteristics in detail, a few qualifica­tions should be made. The first is that no one of these character­istics, by itself, necessarily makes a person creative. All of them together indicate only a potential for creativeness. Next, probably no one person would ever possess all of these characteristics to the same degree. They are parts of a whole, however, and though a person may be stronger in one than in the others, he will probably possess at least some ability to manifest the others in his thinking. Finally, it is possible for a person to strengthen his ability in any of these specific areas. This means that it is also possible for a person to effect an over-all improvement in all of them through conscious effort to cultivate these characteristics.

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